Abstract: This parallax image display device is provided with an image acquiring unit that acquires a right-eye image and a left-eye image used for generating a parallax image enabling a stereoscopic view, an information volume distribution calculator that calculates an information volume distribution of the right-eye image and an information volume distribution of the left-eye image, and a parallax image generator that generates the parallax image from the right-eye image and the left-eye image on the basis of the information volume distribution of the right-eye image and the information volume distribution of the left-eye image.

Abstract: This parallax image display device is provided with an image acquiring unit that acquires a left-eye image and a right-eye image, a parallax image display unit that has a parallax image display area including a left-eye region for displaying the left-eye image and a right-eye region for displaying the right-eye image, and a parallax image generating unit that generates the parallax image, wherein the parallax image display area is composed of unit region sets, each having a rectangular left-eye unit region and a right-eye unit region which is same in shape as the left-eye unit region; and the parallax image generation unit generates the parallax image by displaying the left-eye image in the left-eye region and displaying the right-eye image in the right-eye region.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus and a method for generating an album while adequately allocating images per page in accordance to image capturing-times. The album creating apparatus has an image storing section for storing images correlating with image capturing-times of the images, a distribution-of-image-capturing-time calculating section for calculating a distribution of image capturing-times of the plurality of images stored in the image storing section based on the image capturing-times of the plurality of images stored in the image storing section, an image sorting section for sorting the plurality of images stored in the image storing section per page in the album based on the distribution of image capturing-times calculated by the distribution-of-image-capturing-time calculating section and a layout determining section for laying out the images sorted by the image sorting section per page to each page of the album.

Abstract: An imaging device for an imaging apparatus adapted to image an object through an image formation lens includes: a light receiving section having a plurality of light receiving elements; a microlens section having a plurality of microlenses respectively provided corresponding to a plurality of the light receiving elements to make the corresponding light receiving elements receive an object light beam that passed through the image formation lens; a control section adapted to control shapes of the plurality of the microlenses so as to control pupil regions in an exit pupil of the image formation lens that pass a light beam that should be received by each of the plurality of the light receiving elements; and an image signal generation section adapted to generate an image signal of an image of the object based on imaging signals of the plurality of the light receiving elements.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus, including: an image formation lens having focal lengths different in every region; a light receiving section having light receiving elements; optical elements corresponding to a plurality of the light receiving elements to make the corresponding light receiving elements receive an object light beam that passed through predetermined pupil regions in an exit pupil of the image formation lens; and an image generation section, wherein in the case of selecting, for generation of the image of the object, any one of the pupil regions in the exit pupil through which an object light beam passes, the image generation section selects, based on an object distance and focal lengths each corresponding to a plurality of the pupil regions of the exit pupil, at least one of the pupil regions through which an object light beam that forms an image at a position of the light receiving section passes.

Abstract: An imaging device includes: an optical system, for focusing light from subjects; color imaging element including a plurality of types of light receiving sections that detect light of different wavelength bands, for imaging focused images of the subjects; and an image processing section, for performing filtering processes to remove blur caused by the optical system from data output by the imaging element. The pitch among specified light receiving sections that contribute most to brightness signals is set smaller than that among other light receiving sections. The point spread diameter of the optical system on the specified light receiving sections is set to be greater than the pitch among the specified light receiving sections for wavelengths detected thereby, and less than the pitches among the other light receiving sections for wavelengths detected thereby. The image processing section performs the filtering process only on data output by the specified light receiving sections.

Abstract: A titling apparatus for giving a title to a captured image includes a captured image storing unit, an image capturing time storing unit, an image capturing period judging unit, a period terminology storing unit and a titling unit. A title to a captured image group is determined by using terminology corresponding to a period and a season.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus that effectively extends a depth of field of an imaging unit by performing restoration processing on image data obtained by imaging a subject with the imaging unit, in which image data (A/D converted digital image signal) are corrected by a linear correction unit such that an input light versus output signal value characteristic of the image sensor becomes linear and the restoration processing for depth of field extension is performed on the linear corrected image data.

Abstract: An imaging device includes: a lens optical system, for focusing light from a subject; a single chip color imaging element equipped with a Bayer pattern color filter, for imaging an image of the subject focused by the lens optical system; and an image processing section, for performing a filtering process in which data output by the imaging element is passed through an image reconstructing filter having properties inverse blur properties of the optical system, and then performing a synchronization process. The image processing section collects data excluding zero elements for each of R, G, and B channels, to generate reduced data arrays in which the amount of data is ¼ for the R and B channels, and ½ for the G channel, and administers the filtering process using the image reconstruction filter onto data of the reduced data array for each of the R, G, and B channels.

Abstract: An examinee is subjected to an image or a sound suitable for the examinee's overcoming his worries in accordance with change in a physical state of the examinee.

Abstract: An apparatus for giving a title to a captured image includes a unit for storing a captured image group including a plurality of captured images, a unit for storing an image capturing time when each of the stored images is captured, a unit for judging an image capturing period and an image capturing season including the stored image capturing time, a unit for storing terms respectively related to a plurality of periods with different time widths each of which includes a period and a season, the term corresponding to the period and the season, and a unit for giving a title to the stored captured image group by using a term related to a period of a wider time width out of the stored terms as a difference between the image capturing time and either the image capturing season or the acquired output time, whichever is longer.

Abstract: According to the present invention, the album including user's favorite pictures as main features can be easily provided. The system includes; a image capturing section which captures an image; an image capturing time measuring section which measures the time after setting the image capturing section ready to capture the image and while the user continues to operate the image capturing section to capture the image in each image capturing operation of the image capturing section; a ranking calculating section which ranks the image based on the image capturing time calculated by the image capturing time measuring section; and an output controlling section which displays or prints out the image ranked more highly by the ranking calculating section.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, the power supply management portion includes a timer configured to output an ON signal every time set by the control circuit, an OR circuit configured to receive supply of an output signal from the timer, an external signal supplied from outside, and a switch control signal output from the control circuit, and a switch circuit configured to switch output of the power source voltage from an external power source according to an output signal from the OR circuit, and the control circuit turns on a switch control signal after confirming which of the output signal from the timer or the external signal has turned on the switch circuit and turns off the switch control signal when both of the output signal from the timer and the signal supplied from outside are turned off.

Abstract: An album creating system is provided for speedily creating an album in which images appropriate for the album are automatically laid out without selecting the images to be laid out in the album by a user.

Abstract: A color scheme suitable for a captured position is performed on a portion except a captured image based on position information of the captured image. The album creating apparatus according to the present invention includes a captured position specifying section that specifies a captured position at which a captured image constituting an album is taken, an image storing section that stores a captured images in association with a captured position, an image classifying section that classifies a plurality of captured images stored on the image storing section into captured image groups based on the captured position, a color selecting section that selects a color to be used in a portion except the captured image in the album based on the captured position specified by the captured position specifying section, a color adding section that uses the color selected by the color selecting section to add color to the portion except the captured image in the album, and an image arranging section.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus is equipped with: an imaging element having a plurality of photoelectric converting elements, each of which converts image information borne by input light into a pixel signal and outputs the pixel signal; pixel signal combining means, for combining the pixel signals output from each photoelectric converting element of the imaging element into groups of predetermined numbers of signals; and image signal processing means, for generating digital image data from the combined pixel signals. The pixel signal combining means combines the pixel signals such that pixel signals at the central portions of ranges of pixel signals to be combined are weighted to have higher gain than pixel signals at the peripheral portions of the ranges.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus comprising an image acquiring section that acquires an image captured through an optical system having an optical transfer function that depends at least on distance to an object point, the optical system holding spread of light from the object point substantially constant regardless of the distance to the object point; an image processing section that applies a correction process for correcting the spread of light to the image, based on the optical transfer function of the optical system; and an image generating section that generates a composite image by superimposing, onto each other, a plurality of corrected images generated by the image processing section applying, to the image, different correction processes corresponding to different optical transfer functions.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus comprising a region identifying section that identifies a partial region that fulfills a preset condition in a main image captured through an optical system in which an optical transfer function relating to light from an object point is substantially uniform regardless of a distance to the object point; and a correcting section that corrects an image of the partial region identified by the region identifying section, according to the optical transfer function of the optical system. The image processing apparatus may further comprise a condition storing section that stores the condition to be fulfilled by the partial region corrected by the correcting section, and the region identifying section may identify a partial region of the main image that fulfills the condition stored by the condition storing section.

Abstract: There is provided an image capturing apparatus including a light receiving section that receives light from an object, an optical system that passes the light from the object therethrough so as to cause the light receiving section to receive the light from the object, where the optical system includes an optical modulating section which causes an optical transfer function of the light from the object to remain substantially constant at a position where the light receiving section is provided on condition that an object distance of the object falls within a predetermined range in a direction parallel to an optical axis of the optical system, a diaphragm section that blocks at least partially the light from the object to be received by the light receiving section, a light quantity detecting section that detects a quantity of the light from the object, and an image capturing control section that, when the light quantity detected by the light quantity detecting section is smaller than a predetermined light quanti

Abstract: Visible light image capturing is performed at appropriate timing that corresponds to the action of a subject. An image capturing system includes: an infrared light image capturing section that successively captures a plurality of infrared light images of a subject, using infrared light; a timing predicting section that predicts timing at which the subject included in the plurality of infrared light images matches a predetermined condition, based on timing at which each of the plurality of infrared light images is captured and image content of the plurality of infrared light images; and a visible light image capturing section that captures a visible light image by using visible light at the timing predicted by the timing predicting section.